novelaction Chapter 323: The Ferocity of the Sub-Nuclear Fury Bomb: The Arrival of the Third Fleet
Chapter 323: The Ferocity of the Sub-Nuclear Fury Bomb: The Arrival of the Third Fleet
On the dark highway, trucks were moving at an average speed of 20 kilometers per hour, and some trucks were towing artillery pieces behind them.
On the vast desert on both sides of the road, the marching troops composed of vassal troops ran forward.
Although these vassal troops were already complaining, there were officers from England mixed in their ranks, so they could only curse in their hometown slang and still had to run.
"Hurry, keep speeding up, Lai is right in front of us! The goddess of victory is already waving at us!"
Major General Yingli, the division commander, looked into the distance, as if he had already seen the outline of Lai City, and said excitedly.
However, his expression immediately froze.
Suddenly, in the darkness ahead, fire dragons appeared one after another, as densely packed as shooting stars in the sky.
These fire dragons like meteors come from the artillery battalions of the 5th Airborne Combined Brigade, the 151st Medium Combined Brigade and the 154th Light Combined Brigade.
The 151st Medium Combined Brigade is equipped with 40-tube 122mm BM-21 Grad self-propelled rocket launchers.
The 5th Airborne Combined Brigade and the 154th Light Combined Brigade are equipped with 20-mounted 122mm self-propelled rocket launchers independently developed on four-wheel light tactical off-road vehicles.
At the same time, 155mm wheeled self-propelled artillery, 155mm vehicle-mounted howitzers and 105mm vehicle-mounted howitzers also fired.
Under the guidance of the drone, the shells fell accurately towards the crowd.
In an instant, it covered the British army and its vassal troops who had not yet reacted.
“Boom…Boom…Boom…”
The ground erupted with dazzling flames like a volcano.
The shock wave swept in all directions like a tsunami, easily tearing apart human bodies and steel vehicles.
The shrapnel also rolled the scythe of the god of death and continued to reap lives.
In the sky, fighter planes appeared above the battlefield.
All of these equipment are equipped with various types of infrared imaging devices with a range of more than ten kilometers. People running on the ground can be clearly seen on their display screens.
These running red-hot people also became their best targets.
This time the fighter jet carried a new type of bomb - an aerial cloud-explosive bomb.
This thing was developed independently based on the fuel-air explosive bomb developed by the United States, and a system has now been formed.
有250公斤级、500公斤级、1000公斤级、2000公斤级，共计4种型号。
The most commonly used one is the 500 kg class, which has a large carrying capacity and a wide killing range.
Among the general-purpose bombs that kept falling, there were also 500-kilogram fuel-air bombs.
When the 500-kilogram fuel-air bomb landed, a dazzling fireball shot up into the sky, and the scorching heat instantly evaporated everything around it.
Vehicles built of steel were instantly melted at a high temperature of 2500 degrees Celsius, turning into balls of red-hot molten iron.
The human bodies at the center of the explosion were directly vaporized, and even the ashes could not be found on the ground.
Shock waves and heat radiation spread outward from the explosion center.
Even if the distance is more than 150 meters, when the heat radiation sweeps through the body, the skin will be instantly burned.
The person who was running fell straight down, and a strange fragrance and gas continued to come out of his body.
Within a range of 200 meters, the 500-kilogram fuel-air bomb is within the absolute killing range.
The oxygen within a range of 100 meters was also completely consumed.
After a fuel-air bomb is dropped, in such a wide terrain, there will be almost no survivors within a range of 200 meters, and there will be no so-called lucky ones.
Unless there is a wall in front of them to help them block the heat and shock waves, there is absolutely no possibility of survival.
This is the fuel-air bomb, also known as a sub-nuclear weapon, which has an astonishing ability to kill people.
As mushroom-shaped fireballs rose into the sky from the crowd, lives were constantly being harvested.
When the shelling and air raids began, both the British and the vassal troops from many countries began to run for their lives like headless flies.
However, in front of hundreds of fighter jets, they were just targets.
When the thermal imaging equipment saw a crowd of people on the ground, it directly launched a general-purpose bomb.
If they found a dense crowd of dozens or hundreds of people, they would directly launch a 500-kilogram fuel-air bomb.
With the advancement of technology, weapons are becoming more and more efficient in killing enemies on the battlefield, and this scene is the best illustration of this.
In Lai's command center, the real-time aerial images displayed by the CH-1 Sentinel UAV were clearly presented to Zhuang Tianyou, Luo Qing and others.
"This fuel-air bomb is really crazy. I like this kind of weapon."
Seeing the killing effect of the fuel-air bomb, all the military personnel were very satisfied.
"After the air force bombing is over, it's time for the 151st Brigade to go in. Go back and prepare and wait for notification."
These words were said by Zhuang Tianyou to the commander of the 151st Medium Combined Brigade.
"Yes, Commander-in-Chief!"
Although the 151st Medium Combined Brigade is not equipped with tanks, it is also equipped with more advanced 20-ton multi-functional medium wheeled infantry fighting vehicles.
The Air Force and artillery are responsible for harvesting, and the 151st Medium Combined Brigade's mission is to clean up the battlefield.
More than 100 third-generation fighter jets wreaked havoc over the battlefield for more than an hour until all the ammunition they carried was used up.
At this time, the ground was already in a mess, with bomb craters, vehicle wreckage and enemy corpses everywhere.
But this is not the end, because the second wave of 4 squadrons of fighter planes arrived over the battlefield.
With infrared imaging equipment, enemies running or hiding in the desert can be clearly seen and have nowhere to hide.
If the enemy chooses to lie down and play dead, that's okay, because the 151st Brigade is behind them to clean up the battlefield.
But if you choose to run in the desert without any cover, you will become a target for the second round of air strikes.
Fighter planes roared and patrolled over the battlefield, and those equipped with terrain-avoiding radars did not have to worry about crashing to the ground due to flying too fast.
Because terrain avoidance radar will help them avoid such problems, which is also the role of terrain avoidance radar.
It is the emergence of terrain avoidance radar that has greatly reduced the danger of jet fighters conducting ultra-low-altitude raids below 100 meters.
However, as time went on, the efficiency of the air strikes decreased a lot.
Because the personnel are already very scattered, they are not fools and know that they need to run separately.
More than an hour later, the second round of airstrikes ended.
It was at this time that the 151st Combined Brigade began to enter the battlefield.
This is also to avoid being counted as a victory record by one's own air force.
Although all vehicles are equipped with IFF devices, cases of accidental injuries have occurred, and IFF devices are not that reliable.
In the early morning, the 151st Combined Arms Brigade did not choose to return to Layi, but continued to advance along the highway.
Their mission was to control the important border towns between Persia and Babylonia.
The English troops along this route have been completely defeated.
The 30,000 to 40,000-strong army suffered tens of thousands of casualties in the two rounds of airstrikes and artillery bombardments that night, with thousands missing. The rest were either captured or fled into the desert.
Persia dispatched a force of over ten thousand men to search for these defeated soldiers.
The results of this round of air strikes exceeded Zhuang Tianyou's expectations.
He didn't expect that the war would become so simple with the addition of fuel-air bombs.
This was mainly due to the large concentration of enemies and the wide terrain around Lai with no cover.
Only when these two conditions come together can the Air Force cause such heavy damage this time.
After all, these are tens of thousands of people, not tens of thousands of pigs.
After destroying this group of armies, we will only need to target the remaining two groups of armies that are still on the road.
Compared with the concentrated British troops in this route, the troops in the other two routes were more dispersed.
And assistance from the navy is also needed.
Zhuang Tianyou has two tasks in this operation.
The first was to completely wipe out the British troops that invaded Persia, so that all the countries in China and Saudi Arabia could clearly feel the powerful strength of the ancient country's national defense army.
The second is to occupy the Colte area and gain a strategic support point in the Zhongsha area to facilitate the next step of encroachment.
You should know that to the north of Kort is Babylon and to the west is Sarat.
And Colte itself has rich oil reserves.
It is necessary to occupy this place both from a strategic perspective and from an economic perspective.
The Zhongsha Command did not receive any news that the troops had been destroyed.
Because of the appearance of the EF-111A Raven electronic warfare aircraft, the British troops were unable to send the telegram at all.
Their radios had all been jammed from the moment the shelling and air raids began, making it impossible to send or receive messages.
However, when Admiral Nelson could not contact the troops, he already realized that the troops might be in danger.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for an army consisting of so many troops to not be able to contact even one of them.
There were tens of thousands of troops on this route. How could they be wiped out in just one day?
And this also means that the other two troops are in danger.
Thinking of this, Nelson quickly reported this emergency to his country, hoping that the troops could be evacuated from Persia.
With the ancient country joining the war, it is now impossible for them to conquer Persia.
If the troops suffered heavy losses, they might even lose the entire Zhongsha region, and even the White Elephant Colony would be in danger.
The people in England were also very shocked by the news from Admiral Nelson.
In just a few days, the situation has deteriorated to this extent.
There is a country between the ancient country and Persia. How could their troops provide support so quickly?
Even though they couldn't figure it out, the situation was there and they had to make a choice.
Their choice was to argue, but they still haven't reached a conclusion.
This also directly destroyed the remaining troops.
The Luftwaffe continued its bombing campaign against two other English units.
After seven days of high-speed sailing, the main force of the Third Fleet successfully arrived in the northern waters of the Arabian Sea, less than 7 nautical miles away from the territory of Persia.
"Let the amphibious forces proceed to the Bandar Abbas area for landing."
"The aircraft carrier was responsible for clearing out all the British ships in the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf."
There are many British ships stationed in the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf.
Although there are no battleships, there are a large number of cruisers and destroyers.
For example, there is a cruiser fleet staying near the port of Abbas.
This is also the first maritime target attacked by the Third Fleet.